Shaping the future: I’m open for new adventures
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Lead. Impact. Change.
Leadership that works. Effectiveness that brings life. Agility that invites.
Discover over 400 articles–mostly in German, >35 in English–from more than twenty years, and more about Dr. Joachim Schlosser.
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Exciting times. Society in change, and technologically we live in a highly fascinating time. Me too, am in change. After a wonderful decade at MathWorks it is time to move on. I am looking for a new professional challenge.
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15 Tips for Health on Business Travel
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in EffectivityYou are travelling on business, to a congress, conference, meeting? Short trips job-wise? These days in one place, next day in another? You want—you must—stay healthy during the business trips? In the past you regularly fells sick during or after…
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Brainstorming is Broken – 18 Better Methods for Ideas and Activation
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Everybody knows these meetings: Dear team, today we will solve problem X. For this, we will start with a brainstorming. Who’s got an idea? You all have been in that brainstorming meeting. Me too. And I confess: I have run…
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Calculating Easter in MATLAB
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in TechnologyEvery year, Easter Sunday lies in a different week. But which one? The answer is as simple as profound: Determine “the Sunday following the paschal full moon, the full moon.” This can be calculated thanks to Carl Friedrich Gauß. My…
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Visual Silence in Presentations
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When you are presenting to an audience, you also want to make them think, don’t you? How do you aim to facilitate that with seventy words on a single PowerPoint slide? Your presentation slides probably are too crammed. What you…
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Accelerating the Pace of Engineering Education with Simulation and Hardware
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in TechnologyRecently I had the opportunity to speak for MathWorks at the World Engineering Education Forum 2014 in Dubai. This post provides the abstract, the slides and video of the presentation.
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The State of Engineering Education – SEFI Conference 2014
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in TechnologyEngineering Education is a key driver for Europe’s ability to sustain as a place for innovation and development. To make progress on this matter, the ”European Society for Engineering Education“ (SEFI) has an annual conference bringing together professors and teachers…
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Always Be Curious – A Mindset for Better Conversations
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How do you lead a meaningful, joyful conversation with a client? How do you find the right things to speak about, so that a voluntary conversation feels like a win-win? If you are speaking with customers of all sorts, then…
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Three Essential Productivity Tools
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in EffectivityA tool can also be a tool of the mind, a method. The advantage of methods is that we always have them at hands, regardless which computer infrastructure is available in the moment. For me the three most important and…
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Vacation Time ‒ Quickly Delete Multiple Appointments in Outlook
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in EffectivityIt is vacation time. You are looking forward to some days off , and therefore want to cancel appointments in Outlook that either you scheduled or accepted. This takes time even if you are quick with keyboards, because for each…
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